Those folks are committed to their mindset now. We had a guy literally say prohm didn’t help tyrese, it was 2 months with Bruce Weber. Those folks deserve to be made fun of.
Now we have people doing all they can to diminish any positive event that occurred with him as coach. He didn’t do anything to help nba guys get there. Ironically, the recruits all said they went here in part because he develops nba players.
truth is, there will be a segment of this fan base that would be upset if we went to the sweet 16 next year if he is the coach.
I don’t think it will happen. I think he is gone after next year. But I will continue to hope he wins.
Iowa State is a top 35 job in college basketball, at least at this moment. Wins and losses aren’t going to be what effects that rating.
I think essentially every single thing would have to go right for next year's team to be Sweet 16 caliber. Returning guys would have to improve (some would have to improve a ton), Javan Johnson has to be a big hit, two out of our three incoming freshman are going to have to be immediately ready to play at this level, and we're going to need one maybe two transfers to come in to help out as well. All of that needs to happen and Prohm is going to have to do a hell of a job coaching them.
It's not impossible, and after almost everything went wrong this last year in regards to the off season and overall season it'd be awesome to see everything go right, but it's wishful thinking. I think if next year's team makes the NCAA tournament there will be a lot of people who will buy a little bit of stock in Coach Prohm again, but it's going to take multiple years of success for people to completely buy in. In my opinion, it all starts with how Prohm handles this off-season. He has to get a player or two from either the transfer portal or high level JUCO.
My expectation for Prohm as the head coach is that he puts together a team that in the down years makes strides throughout the year and gives itself a chance to get into the NCAA tournament and at least makes the NIT. Maybe, MAYBE have a year like this one where for some reason the team can't figure it out. But this year makes two out of three absolutely terrible years. In our down years, we should have 15-16 wins the last week or so, where you could possibly win the next one or two regular season games, maybe pick up one in the conference tournament, and you're closing in on the bubble or putting yourself on the bubble.
Iowa State is a top-35 job at the moment. I'll agree with that. But Prohm has to start coaching like a top-35 coach. Coaching isn't all x's and o's, and I think everyone can agree with that. Prohm probably will never be in the top-35 in that category and that's fine, but he has to make up for it in other areas. He has to recruit at a sustainable level. He has to get guys to commit to the program and not their NBA draft status. If he can't do those things he's going to find his way back at a mid-major school.